W. B. Yeats and the Language of Sculpture

Jack Quin (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of English Literature, University of Birmingham)

W. B. Yeats and the Language of Sculpture
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
22 September 2022
Pages
224
ISBN
9780192843159

W. B. Yeats and the Language of Sculpture

Jack Quin (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of English Literature, University of Birmingham)

This book comprehensively examines the relationship between literature and sculpture in the work of W. B. Yeats, drawing on extensive archival research to offer revelatory new readings of the poet. The book traces Yeats’s literary and critical engagement with Celtic Revival statuary, public monuments in Dublin, the coin designs of the Irish Free State, abstract sculpture by the Vorticists and modernists, and a variety of carvings, decorative sculptures, and objets d'art. By charting Yeats’s early art school education in Dublin, his attempts to raise funds for public monuments in the city, and to secure commissions for his favourite sculptors, the book documents a lifelong interest in the plastic arts. New and original readings of Yeats’s poetry, drama, and prose criticism emerge from this concertedly inter-arts and interdisciplinary study.

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